Ungaro’s classy glamour aims for the stars

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NOWADAYS couture’s most compelling raison d’être is not dressing aristocrats for private balls, but providing actresses with the means to get themselves photographed on the red carpet.

Whereas some houses maintain that they have scores of anonymous clients, at Valentino and Ungaro yesterday there was no pretence about whom the clothes were aimed at. Ungaro is a relatively small house still headed creatively by Emanuel Ungaro, who set it up in the 1960s. It pulled off a fashion coup last year when Cameron Diaz wore one of its kimono dresses to the Oscars to all-round ravishing effect.